Shipwrecks of New Zealand. { 7 galleries }

Underwater Photographs of Shipwrecks by New Zealand Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson specializing in Underwater Photography from the Poor Knights Marine Reserve through the South Pacific

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Waikaremoana Wreck 1869.
In the dark and eerie waters of Lake Waikaremoana in the Te Urewera National Park lies a skeleton of a wreck built for war.
In 1869 nearing the end of the New Zealand Wars, the Armed Constabulary sent a force to Lake Waikaremoana in an attempt to quash the Hauhau rebellion led by the Maori chef Te Kooti.
Two whale boats were built to launch an attack by water, but by the
time they were constructed Te Kooti had fled. To prevent them
falling into Maori hands they were scuttled with rocks where the
slowly decaying remains of one lies today.

Underwater Photographs of the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov a Soviet Union cruise ship that sunk in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand by Underwater Photographer and Photojournalist Richard Robinson.

Underwater Photographs of the Rainbow Warrior by New Zealand Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson specializing in Underwater Photography from the Poor Knights Marine Reserve through the South Pacific